I’m a neat freak who hates cleaning. A descriptive linguist who hates apostrophe abuse. A career woman who never dreamed she’d still be at home with her children six months two years six years after first giving birth. A stay-at-home-mum who couldn’t quite make it to seven years before returning to the corporate world.

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I’m fun, funny (although you’ll be laughing at me, not with me) and prone to injuring myself. I never leave the house without my glasses, a notepad, a pen and a pair of crutches. Just in case.

Welcome to my home. As good as, anyway. emhawkerblog is the bloggy home where I tuck my thoughts in to bed.

In August 2011, this blog began as You learn something new everyday, and that’s exactly what it was about. Every day, I selected a lesson I’d learnt, wrote a post, and hit publish.

But as I’ve grown and evolved, so has the blog. So in December 2014, it moved here, to emhawkerblog.

At emhawkerblog, you’ll find some regular features. You’ll find book reviews for children and grown-ups (and for those who identify as both). You’ll find toddler music group programs, funny games of our invention and other ideas for entertaining young children. You’ll also regularly find topical news rants in the form of song rewrites, practical tips for writing and editing, family anecdotes and snippets of the more interesting writing work I do.